Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

[Henning Brauer <hb-nanog () bsws de>]

* Ricky Beam <jfbeam () gmail com> [2010-10-18 21:32]:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:30:48 -0400, Henning Brauer
> <hb-nanog () bsws de> wrote:
> > "Currently, the Pica8 driver is released in binary form"
> >
> > none of the interesting low-level drivers is open. none. zero.
>
> If it's based on a Broadcom chip, trust me, they are doing the world
> a favor by not exposing you to the SoC SDK.

broadcom being too ashamed to show their code would not surprise me at
all.

however, that is no excuse. especially not when they try to market
this as an "open source" switch.

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